Transcribed by TH2, this entry is an excerpt from Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (Book II, lines 855-61) -- a long poem based on Petrarch'sRime 132. TH2 most likely copied from Thynne's edition of Chaucer (c. 1532). This passage features part of Antigone’s song to Criseyde and her ladies-in-waiting in the garden and follows Criseyde’s soliloquy about her mistrust of love. The passage explains that those who defame love have never experienced it. Since this is the last complete lyric in the manuscript as it is currently bound, it forms an intriguing “conclusion” to all the poems in the Devonshire Manuscript that speak of woe in love. However, this excerpt is not the last poem entered into the manuscript; Thomas Howard, the probable transcriber for this passage, died in 1537, but internal evidence indicates that the album was still in use in the 1540s (see, for instance, the date of composition of Surrey’s “O happy dames that may enbrayes” (55r-v)).